limax

See also: Limax

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

⇒? Vulgar Latin: *lēmecis
- Galician: lesma
- Portuguese: lesma
⇒ limācem
- Asturian: llimaz
- Occitan: limaç
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limāca
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: lumaca
- North-Italian:
  - Lombard: lumaga, lumega, numega
  - Lombard: lumaga, lumega
  - Piedmontese: lumega
  - Romagnol: lumega, lumeaga
  - Venetan: łimega
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Gascon: limaca
  - Occitan: limauca, limaca
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācum
- North-Italian:
  - Emilian: lumec
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Aragonese: limaco, llimaco
  - Catalan: llimac
  - Gascon: limac
  - Occitan: limauc, limac
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Asturian: llimiagu
  - Spanish: limaco, lumiaco
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācea
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: limaccia
  - Sicilian: limaccia
- Gallo-Romance:
  - French: limace
  - Occitan: limaça
  - Norman: lînmache
- North-Italian:
  - Ligurian: lumassa
  - Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
  - Romansch: glimaja
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Galician: limacha
  - Spanish: limaza
Borrowings:
- → Interlingua: limace
- → Romanian: limax
- → Translingual: Limax

“limax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
limax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λεῖμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843

Borrowed from Latin limax.

limax m (plural limacși)

Declension of **limax**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	limax	limaxul	limacși	limacșii
genitive-dative	limax	limaxului	limacși	limacșilor
vocative	limaxule		limacșilor